"A 15,000 servers strong botnet currently suspected of operating out of China is being used for mining cryptocurrencies. The botnet is made up of compromised Windows Server machines....The miner’s installer picks which cryptocurrency to mine and then downloads and installs a matching miner, with priority given to Monero. Additional miners include ByteCoin, RieCoin or ZCash, all convertible to USD"

I think it would be quite worthwhile to track down some of the large mining addresses and see if there's a joint investigation to see if they are, in fact, botnet monetization. One of the best ways to stop botnets is to follow the money - that's where they gateway to the real world.

"A 15,000 servers strong botnet currently suspected of operating out of China is being used for mining cryptocurrencies. The botnet is made up of compromised Windows Server machines....The miner’s installer picks which cryptocurrency to mine and then downloads and installs a matching miner, with priority given to Monero. Additional miners include ByteCoin, RieCoin or ZCash, all convertible to USD"

I think it would be quite worthwhile to track down some of the large mining addresses and see if there's a joint investigation to see if they are, in fact, botnet monetization. One of the best ways to stop botnets is to follow the money - that's where they gateway to the real world.

Mining pools should be banning suspected botnet users if they care about Riecoin

This coin seems borderline ready for polo to delist next round (post pump of course)

Any defenses?

There are several coins that Polo has been slow to fix. This coins primary function is mining, looking for large prime constellations. In that respect the coin is doing very well, on track to break more world records if difficulty keeps rising. There is also a reasonable amount of volume on btc38, not sure why polo would miss out on that extra revenue.

This coin seems borderline ready for polo to delist next round (post pump of course)

Any defenses?

There are several coins that Polo has been slow to fix. This coins primary function is mining, looking for large prime constellations. In that respect the coin is doing very well, on track to break more world records if difficulty keeps rising. There is also a reasonable amount of volume on btc38, not sure why polo would miss out on that extra revenue.

RIECOIN is Bitcoin alternative and unique scientifical peer-to-peer open source cryptocurrency besides Primecoin, Gridcoin, EMC2 and foldingcoin that implemented a unique scientific computing proof-of-work system.That's the point of Riecoin: the mining process, besides fulfilling its function to the operation of the network, generates series of prime numbers as a by-product. This prime numbers are of interest to mathematicians and the scientific community. Riecoin is proof that it is possible to effectively harness all that massive computing power to something useful other than hashing functions. Above all, Riecoin was launched fairly! Riecoin is designed to help solve a mathematical mystery involving prime numbers.As with Bitcoin, Riecoin users “mine” virtual coins using a program that solves a difficult mathematical problem. But with Riecoin, this mining process also finds clusters of consecutive prime numbers.

These “prime constellations” provide a way to test the Riemann hypothesis, which is one of the seven Millennium Prize Problems designated by the Clay Mathematics Institute in Providence, Rhode Island. A proof of the hypothesis is worth $1 million.Riecoin can’t find a proof, but it might find an example of a constellation that doesn’t fit with Riemann and so offer clues as to how to disprove it – although most mathematicians expect it to hold.

What is the value of finding prime number constellations?Lots of mathematicians study prime numbers. Many conjectures on prime number constellations and prime number distribution in general rely on the Riemann Hypothesis, which has a prize of 1M USD for anyone who can prove (or disprove) it. If they are willing to give that much money, it means exploring them should have some value. It's not like we are solving the Riemann Hypothesis with Riecoin, but we will be verifying Hardy-Littlewood k-tuple conjectures (at the moment, for k = 6). Even if the only value of Riecoin's proof of work algorithm is getting people interested in prime numbers, it already is worth trying.

The mathematics behind blockchain.In a previous Math Investor blog, we described the emerging world of blockchain, emphasizing how it might impact the financial services and investment world. Already numerous firms, including several startup organizations, are pursuing blockchain to facilitate and streamline many types of financial transactions.

It is worth taking a brief look at the mathematics behind blockchain. The following is based in part on an article by Eric Rykwalder, one of the founders of Chain.com, a startup blockchain software firm in San Francisco.- http://www.financial-math.org/blog/2016/10/the-mathematics-behind-blockchain/